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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Mendoza launched for mayor standing in front of the right problems — parking meters, property taxes, rent — and offering nothing about what she'd actually do. read more about this in Chicago 312:https://chicago312.beehiiv.com/

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Quotes like this make me sorry that I spend so much time talking about how we have to stop underestimating the moderate right in Chicago

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This Friday, Illinois Signal Collective ran a quick vertical video training for organizers from ICIRR, AAMP, COFI, and Equity and Transformation, all heading to advocate in Springfield this Wednesday. You can't teach your way past being willing to look a little silly on camera — this room did it!

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Really grateful to have gotten to attend the ribbon cutting at Brighton Park Neighborhood Council's new building, eleven years in the making. Nice to see electeds, neighbors and organizers gathered to celebrate something, instead of dealing with all of Midway Blitz. Congrats, BPNC!

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

already, local utility comed says it has more than 75 large-load projects that are waiting to be connected to the power grid. collectively, just these projects are expected to draw more than 2.8 gigawatts of energy—more than comed's highest-ever peak demand of 2.4 gigawatts.

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Regulators OK ComEd’s plan to increase deposit costs for large-load projects like data centers

Commission calls the order an ‘important first step’ but initiates proceedings to dig deeper

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 09/04/2026

Happening now: an anti-war protest is gathering in Chicago's Federal Plaza over US/Israeli attacks on Iran & Lebanon. Iranian & US officials announced a 2 week ceasefire yesterday. That's now in question after Israel extensively bombed Lebanon earlier today, reportedly killing over 250 people.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am not invested in the left as a briar patch of subcultures. I am invested in the left as an ecosystem of political projects, many of which have overlapping interests and concerns. These approaches are not interchangeable and are sometimes diametrically opposed.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I wish there was a world where a media smear campaign against The Third Way, for all of the harm they've done over the decades, could gain frictionless traction in the way that their campaign against Piker has.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Re: Dem politicians using social media, trying to take cues from Mamdani, but without sharing his policy views: "If you’re doing untrustworthy stuff in the real world, or if your actions don’t align with what you’re building an audience around on social, you’re not gonna win hearts and minds."

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

All of this feels less important to me than running campaigns that solve people's problems and provide real solutions to what's broken in government.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I hope a candidate that Only Posts doesn't win. I don't think Posting is a good or informed understanding of what a lot of candidates did differently these last few races.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I don't think we need Posting or Posting candidates, I think we need people who are able to experiment and choose actual meaningful action in a way reaches people who aren't tapped into organizing already.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I don't entirely agree with this but it's STRIKING that even David Plouffe is saying it

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/04/2026

in response to the various largely popular millionaire and billionaire tax efforts, the rich are aggressively exerting their political muscle, going from less than 1% pre-Citizens United to nearly 20% of all political spending in the last election cycle www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/04/2026

“There's so many needs that American families have and we so often have to hear ‘There’s no money for that.’ Well, there’s lots and lots of money. And lo and behold sometimes they manage to find it for things that the American people don’t even support and won’t benefit from” @amyhanauer.bsky.social

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Billionaire fortunes have reached all-time highs under Trump. So has the movement to tax them

Residents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/04/2026

wrote about how rage at America's wealthiest, particularly in tech (Musk, Zuck, Thiel), and the inequality of a new gilded age is powering a wave of efforts to tax the rich — out of organizing and anger that's built from Occupy to the 2016 Bernie campaign to Zohran's election. @us.theguardian.com

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Billionaire fortunes have reached all-time highs under Trump. So has the movement to tax them

Residents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services

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Djarum @djarum.org · 03/04/2026

Over half the country doesn't vote and there are reasons for that but engaging with those demographics might mean that certain groups might lose power, which is unacceptable to them. It's better to be kings of nothing than not be king anymore.

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batski @babski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

riding the bus.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This worldviews feels so bleak to me, after years of local government + organizing. This particular strategy is exciting to me because it’s actually *working* — and there are more people than ever in smaller races where this can turn the tides, willing to engage with this group. Why is he mad?

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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thinking about Fritz Kaegi's election loss today as another round of property taxes is due in Cook County. I looked back on this piece I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social in 2018. Historian @tracylsteffes.bsky.social already told us all this was gonna happen. placesjournal.org/article/chic...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Just want to tell a story about the day I was proudest of Kat's campaign, and why I'm so excited she's quadrupling down on it. One day when she was running, a potential constituent reached out to her. She needed baby formula with a specific protein in it ASAP, but she could no longer afford it.

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Coming off a loss in IL primaries, Kat Abughazaleh launches a new effort “merging mutual aid, political action, and apolitical events.” @jesswash.bsky.social covered her campaign’s mutual aid program here: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

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Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People

Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Rahm Emanuel is the candidate for the three people who find Gavin Newsom too likable.

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

SCOOP: Sources close to Loop have informed me that he intends to primary 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly in the 2027 municipal elections, running on a message that it’s time for new blood and fresh energy in a ward which has stagnated during the incumbent’s five (5) terms

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wuv him 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What’s next:

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

tomorrow night superintendent snelling finally has to sit in a chair and answer questions about CPD and ICE. he skipped the last one. new 312 dropping tomorrow morning with the full breakdown + my interview with CAIR-Chicago's Jordan Esparza-Kelley. subscribe if you haven't.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"Every transphobe is trans" is false but "Conservatism makes you insane about gender" is real.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/03/2026

"While you lean on a technological crutch of grammatical mediocrity to drag your essays over the finish line, I’ll be metaphorically zipping past you on my “magic carpet” of words emerging directly from my own declining and unpredictable brain."

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Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.

A message of support for my fellow writers

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

what’s happening to trans people is not separate from what’s happening to everyone else in America. It’s always been the same fight: healthcare, jobs, schools, a government that doesn’t treat whole categories of people as disposable. we all need a functioning society. happy tdov. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

they're doing ban moving discourse on twitter

a twitter exchange

Jack Stevenson (@TweetsOfSteve):

The solution is NOT TO COME....we are full.

Ppl are taking advantage of our marginalized communities to obtain cheap rent unethically, these places are for Chicago residents only, not gentrifiers from coastal elite places.

Response by:
Chocolate Gidd...(@FreethruJus...)

We don't have internal passports, and all consumption under capitalism is unethical.

If you don't want people moving there, get rid of the jobs.

Jack Stevenson (@TweetsOfSteve_):

NO. Why can ppl not understand that u have ur own community! Why do u need to come here? Our rents have skyrocketed since I moved to Chicago in 2016 & nobody can afford. and new ppl dont show consideration (no californians mask here and just go freely everywhere, chicagoans mask)

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happening now at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport: A small protest is underway against ICE agents being deployed to airports across the country, including at O'Hare. For the moment press here outnumber protestors, but more people are slowly trickling in.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Another round of national-level anti-Chicago propaganda incoming.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Really hope it does not get worse and it truly could not have happened to a more competent, thoughtful alder. Illinois Signal Collective made a quick guide on this to try to help shut this down: chicago312.beehiiv.com/p/the-right-...

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The Right is Using A Chicago Tragedy To Attack Sanctuary Policy

From the Chicago Signal Collective.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

good policy isn't enough without narrative infrastructure. We can build the best sanctuary protections in the country, but if we can't defend them publicly within 48 hours of a crisis, have we handed the frame to people who want to dismantle them?

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Michael Sacks Would Like You to Know He's the Real Victim Here

This week's 312: National news continues to unprecedent, the Right Wing media machine is grinding content about Chicago crime, and data centers, data centers everywhere. Plus: who is Michael Sacks…

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